title: Exploiting exploration: past outcomes and future actions.
abstract: Applying past knowledge to future actions is crucial for adaptive choice behavior. Here, in this issue of Neuron, Donahue et al. (2013) show that reward enhances neural coding reliability for actions in a network of frontal and parietal brain areas.
authors.affiliation: Center for Neural Science, New York University, 4 Washington Place, Room 809, New York, NY 10003, USA. Electronic address: klouie@cns.nyu.edu.
authors.forename: Kenway
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Louie
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D012201:Reward